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SUMMARY REPORT
2ND ANNUAL PAN-AFRICAN MEETING OF
NATIONAL CODEX CONTACT POINT
OFFICERS
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INTRODUCTIONThe 2nd Annual Panafrican Meeting of the National Codex
Contact Point Officers was held, in Accra, Ghana from 27 to
29 January 2011, under the PAN-SPSO Project.
The meeting was opened by Prof. Ahmed El-Sawalhy,
Director of the AU/ IBAR.
The meeting was organized with the objective of facilitating
the effective participation of CCAFRICA members in the
work ofCodex Alimentarius Commission
The meeting was co-chaired by Mr. Kwamina Van-Ess of
Ghana and Dr. Ben Manyindo of Uganda
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Issues d iscussedThe PAN-SPSO Project
Permanent Mechanism for Coordination of African Position
on Food Safety Standards
Ensuring functional CCPs and NCCs to drive national Codex
activities
Risk Analysis
Issues of relevance in upcoming Codex meetings and
proposed actionsIdentification of other Codex Committees where Regional
Expert Group meetings are required and their TOR
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Issues d iscussedRevision of the Codex Guidelines on Formulated
Supplementary Foods for Older Infants and
Young Children
Proliferation of Private standard s
Proposed draft Code of Practice for Fish and
Fishery Prod ucts (Section on Smoked Fish)
Proposed draft layout for Codex standards for
fresh fru its and vegetablesDeveloping Regional Position Papers
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RECOMMENDATIONS
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AU/ IBAR1Standard s and Trad e Secretariat being established
in AU/ IBAR (food safety and animal health
desk). The standard s and trad e secretariat iscreated and will be permanent. AU/ IBAR willsustain the Secretariat.
AU/ IBAR and the RECs should develop amechanism for ensuring the establishment offood safety (Codex) desks/ offices at the
ind ividual RECs for smooth coord ination of foodsafety matters
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AU/ IBAR2Get a fixed location for the CCAFRICA w ebsite.
Regard ing the focal country, Ghana could be
made to continu e with the administration of thewebsite, otherw ise the next Coord inator or the
proposed food safety and animal health desk at
AU/ IBAR .
AU/ IBAR should sup port more African Experts
to participate in priority Codex meetings.
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Setting up permanent mechanism for
coordination of African Position on food
safety standards
The Meeting adopted the permanent mechanism for
coord ination of African Position on food safetystandards and also endorsed the establishment of aStandard s and Trad e Secretariat at AU-IBAR
The Meeting recognized the need for Regional Expertmeetings be based on harmonizing N ational Positionson various Codex draft standards. However, giventhe lack of adequate capacity at the national level to
formulate national positions, Expert Meeting w ill inthe interim develop positions for CCAFRICAcountries to guide them in the commenting p rocess.
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Setting up permanen t mechanism for
coord ination of African Position on food
safety standards2
The number of expert meetings should not be
fixed but be based on the relevance of issues
being d iscussed by Codex committees.
One NCCP meeting should be held to review
CAC decisions and re-identify issues of interest to
the Region.
RECs are also encouraged to organize NCCP
meeting for the member states.
The 3rd Annual NCCP meeting will be hosted by
the next Coord inator for CCAFRICA.
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Ensuring Functional National Codex
Committees and Codex Contact Points For
Codex Activities1
CCAFRICA members should adopt the African
Regional Guidelines for Codex Contact Points
and National Codex Committees (CAC/ GL43:2003 )
AU/ IBAR should collaborate with FAO/ WHO
to conduct assessment on NCC and CCP situation
in African countries with the view of providing
specialized assistance to underprivileged
countries
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Ensuring Functional National Codex
Committees and Codex Contact Points For
Codex Activities 2
Ghana, the current Coord inator for CCAFRICA
and the FAO/ WHO should seek political support
for Cod ex activities in the Region by explainingCodex issues at the AU Summit, FAO, WHO
Regional meetings and in meetings of the RECS
The AU should initiate action through the
FAO/ WHO to obtain membership status for AU.
The status of this activity should be reported at
the 20th Session of CCAFRICA
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Overview of In ternational Risk Analysis
Framework and FAO/WHO Scientific AdviceActivities
Member countries should strengthen food controlsystems including surveillance and research
laboratories for generation of scientific data for
Codex workStrengthen N CCs including Technical
Committees to provide technical support
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Identification of other Codex Committees
where Regional Expert Group meetings are
required and their ToR
CCFFP, CCFA, CCFL and CCFFV in addition to
CCCF, CCPR and CCFH were identified as
Committees where Regional Expert Meetings will be
needed.
The ToR for these Regional Working Groups shou ld
be consistent w ith ToR of the Committees as found inthe Codex Procedural Manual
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Outcome of CCCF Expert MeetingParticipants endorsed recommendations
presented by the Expert Committee on
Contaminants in Foods
The recommend ed Positions are to be circulated
by the Coord inator to all CCPs and also posted
on the CCAFRICA website
Member countries should submit their comments
before the dead lines. The CCAFRICA
Coordinator should continu e to send remind ers
to members on this issue
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Recommend ations from the Expert Meeting on
Pesticide Residues1 ACTION: Support advancement of the recommended MLs, countries
within the African region that have these pesticides registered cou ld
provid e copy of the official labels/ letters of authorization of this
pesticide for papaya, mango and okra. The letters of confirmation fromregistrars are needed and outlining the use patterns should be
submitted to the Coordinator not later than 18th February 2011.
Countries within the African region that have Bifenthrin and
difenoconazole registered should provide copy of the official
labels/ letters of authorization of this pesticide for papaya, mango and
okra. We need letters of confirmation from registrars that this pesticide
is being used and the use pattern submitted to the Coord inator by 18thFebruary 2011.
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Recommend ations from the Expert Meeting on
Pesticide Residues2
ACTION for African coun tries: With regard to the Draft Revision of the
Codex Classification of Foods and Animal Feeds at Step 7: Tree nuts,
Herbs and Spices member countries should consider what is grown and
traded and propose inclusions for those that are not included. Wherethere are omissions, we request the Codex Contact Points and National
Codex Committee to identify any omissions from the list to be includ ed
and provide this information at the earliest possible time.
AU/ IAPS C and the FAO in collaboration w ith the AU/ IBAR will be
organizing a training workshop for African Experts in Pesticide
Residues